Children Quotes

The certainty with which the effective prohibition of incest has been declared leads one to look for the evidence these authors might have for their assertions. Yet such a search soon proves quite fruitless. . . consider the evidence for the opposite hypothesis: That it is incest itself-and not the absence of incest-that has been […]

My wife and I have five children; the reason we have five children is because we do not want six.

There is hardly an imaginable form of genital assault that is not regularly performed on children.

Love means that the adults be genuinely concerned with the evolution of the true nature of the child. Children are not able to respond to a love which tries to fashion them according to the concept of the adult, no matter how good the latter’s intention may be.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots. The other is wings.

There is a theory that since the child will be obliged in later life to do many things that he does not want to do, he might as well learn how while he is young. The difficulty here seems to be that learning to do one kind of a thing that you do not want […]

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? (Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000)

I love all my children, but some of them I don’t like.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.